The worst-case cost for Radix Sort when
sorting n
keys with keys in the range 0 to r^3-1
is:
\Theta(n)
\Theta(n \log n)
\Theta(n^2)
\Theta(n^3)
In this question, we restricted the key range.
We restrict the key range to be a constant number of digits, independent of the number of records.
So, each record is processed three times.